FRUGALGPT: COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACHES FOR UTILIZING LLMS

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This study examines the high costs associated with using popular language model APIs like GPT-4, ChatGPT, and J1-Jumbo, and suggests three strategies for reducing these costs: prompt adaptation, LLM approximation, and LLM cascade. The research introduces FrugalGPT, an efficient application of the LLM cascade strategy that can match the performance of top language models at a fraction of the cost or even improve their accuracy.